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Brian
Member Since Jan 1st, 2008

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CourseSmart releases eTextbook reader for iPhone

Aug 13th 2009 7:03PM on Engadget

I recommend textbooks, but my professional school students don't buy them. My course is sui generis anyway and put together from many sources to keep the material interesting and up to date. The primary documents created from this material are PowerPoint presentations (snicker all you want, I don't care) which the students print out and annotate lavishly during my well-attended lectures. Textbooks are sometimes wrong and always out of date. Even these e-versions are just slavish copies of immense textbooks that are themselves 3-4 years out of date. What's the point of having electronic material if it's not up-to-the minute?

Oregon Scientific introduces solar-powered +ECO Clima Control weather station

Jul 7th 2009 5:35PM on Engadget

Pair it with a solar-powered wireless rain gauge and I'd buy the setup in a heartbeat.

TUAW First Look: Keynote '09

Jan 9th 2009 2:13AM on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)

How about custom animation paths? For example, to make an object move from one part of a slide to another, to illustrate a process. PowerPoint Windows has always been able to do this, but never the Mac version, and never Keynote, to my knowledge. Correct me if I'm mistaken.

Microsoft patents Page Up / Page Down functionality, April 1st seen lingering in the distance

Sep 2nd 2008 9:42AM on Engadget

Just in case anyone forgot:
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29130

Back to School: Malkinware Reference Tracker 1.0 for Mac OS X

Aug 18th 2008 9:01AM on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)

There are several well-established and powerful bibliographic programs for Mac out there already: for example, Bookends and EndNote. From the Malkinware web site, it looks like Reference Tracker is aimed at high school students and possibly undergraduates, certainly not graduate students and absolutely not at professional researchers. I hope someone (else) does a review.

iPhone line forms at Apple's flagship for absolutely no reason

May 23rd 2008 3:43PM on Engadget

Just like in the former Soviet Union, people queued up at the slightest hint of some consumer product being in stock. You saw a queue forming, you just got in and then asked someone what was available (shoes, bread, whatever).

Ask TUAW: Reducing distractions, sharing drives, Activity Monitor, winmail.dat and more

Mar 2nd 2008 1:27PM on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)

To hide your desktop using a hotkey, try Camouflage (briksoftware.com). Works great with Leopard, and is donationware. Also, I've had past success with TNEF's Enough (Entourage client), though I haven't had the opportunity to use it in Leopard.

Carl Zeiss to unveil "Cinemizer" iPod movie-viewing accessory at Macworld

Jan 9th 2008 5:02PM on Engadget

And if it's really made by Carl Zeiss, it will cost an arm and a leg plus a few other body parts.

LG & Mark Levinson launching two home theater systems at CES

Jan 1st 2008 7:15AM on Engadget

What is ICE power? The ICEPower web site is just PR and ad copy.

Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.

"I'm heading to university next year, and I've purchased a MacBook. I'm also taking my four year old desktop, just in case I'm left with no computers when the MacBook is being repaired or whatnot. With only two USB ports on a MacBook, I want a Bluetooth mouse. Budget is about $100, and of course, it needs OS X support. Thanks for the help!"

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